The US Effort To Rally The World

 The U.S. effort to rally the world against China risks sparking a “new cold war,” Chinese President XiJinping 

warned Monday in his most striking comments to date on the increasingly bitter power struggle unfolding between Washington and Beijing.

In a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr. Xi 

seemed to take direct aim at President Biden, who has made headlines by expressing a desire to convene an international summit of democracies during his first year in offi ce to nurture a unified front against authoritarian regimes such as that 

in China.Mr. Xi, who 

addressed world leaders via video, 

warned that such efforts  will lead to economic division and could pave the way for armed conflict —stark remarks amid uncertainty over how the Biden administration plans to proceed with the bare-knuckle U.S. policy toward China that defined the Trump era.

Mr. Xi suggested that the Chinese 

Communist Party intends to treat any American-led push to isolate his country, 

whether engineered by a Republican or 

Democratic administration, as overtly hostile.

“To build small circles or start a new Cold War, to reject, threaten or intimidate others, to willfully impose decoupling , supply disruptions or sanctions, 

and to create isolation or estrangement will only push the world into division and even confrontation,” the Chinese president said.

“We cannot tackle common challenges in a divided world, and confrontation tation will lead us to a dead end,” he said,